You can now have your say on parking fees, parking spaces, on and off-street parking, parking meters … in fact all things parking across Ipswich.
Ipswich Council has drafted the City of Ipswich Parking Pricing Strategy to provide guidance for decision-making on parking management across the entire city, including the management of time restrictions and priced parking.
We’re looking for feedback on our strategy, particularly:
• About you and where you park
• Parking management objectives
• The framework and how council will consider changes to parking
• Fee structures
• Use of parking revenue
• Use of smart technologies
• Expanding priced parking into new areas.
A report was presented to council last month which outlined the development of the City of Ipswich Parking Pricing Strategy, a key part of iGO – Ipswich’s Transport Plan.
The report said parking is one of the biggest challenges facing local governments, including Ipswich, given the impacts of population growth, increased traffic and congestion, and the associated demands on transport infrastructure (including parking) can often require significant attention, resources and investment.
Council provides more than 3,500 parking spaces in the Ipswich City Centre, which includes both on-street and off-street spaces. Of these parking spaces, approximately 710 spaces are subject to priced parking while the remaining are either unrestricted or managed using time restrictions.
The new strategy provides a framework for priced parking, allowing council to respond to different parking contexts in a systematic and consistent manner.
It will also look at the implementation of priced parking and management of time restrictions at Springfield Town Centre and other activity centres experiencing parking pressures.
Interim Administrator Greg Chemello said that the opportunity for community and stakeholder feedback would enable people to “air their views on a sensitive issue” and would be a suitable yardstick or counterpoint for the technical studies.
Acting General Manager of Infrastructure and Environment Cathy Murray said all feedback received will be considered along with the technical report to ensure that council’s framework for the implementation of timed and priced parking in Ipswich is as comprehensive as possible.
Residents are encouraged to take the five-minute online survey before it closes on 2 February. For more information, read here
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